This is a clever bookmarklet from @darby3 that improves Micro.blog's post scheduling by filling in the date. Maybe Micro.blog should do this by default? Eventually need to have a real date-picker on the web, like we do in the Mac app.
2023-01-10
New fiber going up in the neighborhood? Not sure who’s installing this but can’t hurt.
After several months, decided to cancel Kindle Unlimited. I didn't think about how it could become an incentive for authors to go Amazon-only, which isn't good for the larger e-book ecosystem. Still mostly using Libby, purchased books, and Audible. 📚
2023-01-10
Finished reading: Assassin's Apprentice by Robin Hobb. That was excellent. 📚
2023-01-11
Nice summary by Colin Devroe on the return to blogging:
People that hadn't written on their blog in a long time are blogging again. Websites that hadn't been updated in many years, some over a decade, are being spruced up and published to again.
2023-01-11
Can't shake a comment that someone liked Micro.blog but it didn't have many features. Blogs, themes, plug-ins, social network, podcast hosting, read-later bookmarks, cross-posts, archiving, highlights, email newsletters, bookshelves, IndieWeb, fediverse... Missing: marketing.
2023-01-11
Productive morning fixing bugs, reviewing logs, answering email. Sometimes lots of small things feel like more forward momentum than the big stuff. ☕️
2023-01-12
I'll be watching as Medium runs their own Mastodon instance. I like my approach better: integrating ActivityPub directly into the blog platform, not alongside it as a separate platform. But there's no single right way to do this.
2023-01-12
In a few years there may be a handful of very large, Medium-level Mastodon instances capable of scaling to millions of users each, and some thousands of smaller, volunteer-run instances that come and go. Centralization brings convenience. Too early to know how it plays out.
2023-01-12
Self-driving mixed thoughts
Listening to Dithering this morning, which was a longer discussion following up on John Gruber's post about the self-driving accident in San Francisco last week, I remembered a near-accident I was in a few weeks ago.
It was the usual morning traffic on the highway when cars stopped in front of me and I had to stop quickly. I watched in the rearview mirror as the car behind me narrowly missed me, moving to the side slightly, but the car behind that person swerved and clipped another car. Traffic kept moving around them and there was nothing I could do, just thankful that it wasn't worse and that I wasn't in the collision.
These kind of small crashes or near-accidents must happen hundreds or thousands of times a day. They don't make the news, except as part of an update on rush-hour traffic. The same accident with self-driving "beta" software is more notable.
I guess I'm of two minds about self-driving: the technology enthusiast in me thinks autonomous vehicles will generally be safer than cars driven by humans, but I also think it's largely a waste of resources to prioritize this effort. I'd much rather see the money and time put into better public transportation. It's gotta be more efficient and safer to move people on a train.
2023-01-13
While we wait to see if the Twitter API problems are the end of third-party clients or just a glitch, this chapter from my book provides some of the history of how we got here and personally why I stopped using Twitter years ago. The writing has been on the wall for a decade.
2023-01-13
From @news:
Updates to and from Mastodon are quite delayed this morning. We are monitoring it, and expect everything to sort out eventually. May be random or a spike in Mastodon activity as Twitter continues to implode.
2023-01-13
Sad that this post from the Iconfactory is needed, but the art is great.
2023-01-13
New Core Intuition! We talk about marketing and upcoming app plans. I also fixed a feed issue in Micro.blog with it, so posts will start flowing into @coreint@micro.blog again for fediverse folks who want to follow along.
2023-01-13
Not feeling well this weekend, so I’m less chatty about the confirmed Twitter third-party app shutdown than I’d usually be. Just listening to audiobooks and keeping up with the news and blog posts.
2023-01-16
